# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-c-white
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:20:12.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-c-white"
name: "Helen C. White"
slug: "helen-c-white"
description: "Helen Constance White was an American academic who was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. White twice served as the English department chair and was the first woman to become a full professor in the university's College of Letters and Science. She was also the first woman elected president of the American Association of University Professors, and a president of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), University of Wisconsin Teachers' Union, and University Club. White wrote six novels and numerous nonfiction books and articles."
tagline: "American professor of English"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Helen_C._White%2C_national_AAUW_president_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1896-11-26"
deathDate: "1967-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.272930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_C._White"
    title: "Helen C. White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيلين وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_C._White"
    title: "Helen C. White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ہیلن سی وائٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Constance_White"
    title: "Helen Constance White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഹെലൻ സി. വൈറ്റ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump